Matter of Judicial Disciplinary Proceedings Against Pressentin

Judicial disciplinary proceeding; discipline imposed.

The judicial conduct panel recommended that James F. Pressentin, municipal judge for the Village (formerly, Town) of Allouez, be suspended from the office of municipal judge for a period of six months as discipline for misconduct consisting of his having sought election to nonjudicial elective office without first resigning his judicial office, in violation of the Code of Judicial Ethics, SCR 60.05. Judge Pressentin contended that his violation of SCR 60.05 was not willful because initially he was unaware of the rule proscribing such…